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...junior on the varsity team Wolfe leads the fast break and guards the opposition's toughest player. With his thin, wiry body, he often fakes out players five and six inches taller than he on drives to the basket. This year, he won the Beanpot's Tournament's Most Valuable Player award...

Author: By Fran Schumer, | Title: Ken Wolfe: Brooklyn's Finest | 2/16/1973 | See Source »

When the team opened its season at Indiana this year there were 12,330 fans ready and anxious to cheer every Indiana basket, foul shot and rebound. Indiana fans take such pride in their cheering, in fact, that a select group of students has been chosen this year to sit in a special cheering section to help boost the Hoosiers...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Echoes of Apathy | 2/15/1973 | See Source »

...Dutch-Irish tenant farmer, he was raised in Martinsville, a town whose chief distinction, as noted in Ripley's Believe It or Not, was that its 5,200 inhabitants built a basketball fieldhouse that seated 5,520. He began with a rag ball and the proverbial peach basket nailed to the hayloft. He was an honor student and a three-time All-America at Purdue, where he financed his way by waiting on tables and taping the ankles of football players for 350 an hour. He is remembered as the "India Rubber Man," a 5-ft. 10-in., razzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Wooden Style | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...Wooden's success at Indiana State brought him an offer from U.C.L.A. When he first arrived in Los Angeles, he was shocked to find local youths lounging on the beach and playing tennis instead of shooting at the old peach basket. U.C.L.A. boosters were equally bemused to discover that their Hoosier hotshot did not take to the cocktails-and-canapes circuit. His speed was a deviled-egg sandwich and a dish of custard at Hollis Johnson's Fountain and Grill, an eatery that he still frequently attends. Put off at first, the India Rubber Man bounced back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Wooden Style | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

After the game, coach Bob Harrison said that the cagers were unprepared for the Brown stall which utilized three guards out by midcourt and two forwards deep in the corners. On numerous occasions, the Brown guards would break by their defenders and either head to the basket or pass off to the cornermen. The cornermen then had the option of shooting or passing the ball back out to the guards to start the play again...

Author: By David R. Caploe and Douglas E. Schoen, S | Title: Brown Cagers Upset Crimson, 65-60 | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

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